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Lawyers Ask Delay For Lockerbie Trial

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS — Prosecutors have requested a delay to next week's start of the Lockerbie airliner bombing trial, Scottish officials said Tuesday.

"The prosecution have asked for a pretrial hearing at which they will propose ... postponement to request more time," said a spokesman for Scotland's government.

The spokesman said the special pretrial hearing would take place at the former Dutch military base of Camp Zeist on Thursday.

The trial of Libyans Abdel Basset al-Megrahi and Al-Amin Khalifa Fahima, accused of blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish village of Lockerbie in 1988, was due to begin at Camp Zeist on May 3 and was expected to last around a year.